Single of the Week | MANIC MONDAY - THE BANGLES

 Of course Monday, Monday . . . . . . . 

 They say it's Susanna Hoffs' birthday? . . . . . . . (I don't care! Any excuse right?!) 

 . . . . . HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEAD BANGLE!

 . . . [it is she's 61!]

RANDOM MUSICAL THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY No.1

Susanna Hoffs

I used to really like The Bangles . . . . . and now I'm and old and grey, if only I could remember why . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . nope beats me

KATE RUSBY & family!

MANIC MONDAY

by Prince

Kate said at the time:
Here is our brand new track ‘MANIC MONDAY’ 🥂🎊😁
We are recording a covers album, called ‘HAND ME DOWN’. Due to lock down we decided to release the tracks digitally as we go along. (Cd and vinyl to follow later in the year) Songs I love, songs to cheer, to reminisce, to sing along, but mainly to create smiles. 😊☀️❤️

Available ⭐️NOW⭐️ on all digital platforms, go see if you can find it. 👀😃✨🌈

Ps Our girls have been coming to studio too of course, as they have to, so they sing on this too, they are my Bangles, I’m one proud mum. ❤️ Hope you like it👍🎉😁😃😊🌈❤️😆


Then Susanna Hoffs tweeted about it and Kate went all star struck! ( ha ha ha so funny)


OH MY ACTUAL GOODNESS ME!!! Susanna Hoffs, lead singer of The Bangles, has messaged to say she likes our version of The Bangles’ Manic Monday 🎊🥂🎊❤️✨ it’s made my day, month, year, and made me very emotional, there are tears!!
What a lovely, generous lady!! I am jumping, around in a pretty uncool fashion!!🤫
If only I could pop back in time and tell my 13 year old self 😊☀️
Well thank you fabulous Susanna Hoffs for your kind words🙏 🌈 — feeling hyper.

I love that she got so overwhelmed and excited that Susanna Hoffs would message her and she turns into a little girl fan! She is such a GIRL! We love her, we love them, Damien too!

then the BBC began playing it on the play lists and she and the girls wanted to announce the fact and I play this if I ever need cheering up . . . . being in lock down and not allowed to hug my granddaughter or new grandson I play it quite a bit . . . . . . . . . .so lovely and so, so funny!

Pop . . . . . . . well two words, 

Susanna Hoffs

She is still working at 57 and has done loads of work with the likes of Matthew Sweet and formed a covers band, Ming Tea,  with Mike Myers under the pseudonym Gillian Shagwell (of course). It's like watching Joanne Whalley on LSD turned rock star! 

On this day music history: December 20, 1986 - “Walk Like An Egyptian” by The Bangles hits #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 4 weeks. Written by Liam Sternberg, it is the first chart topping single for the power pop/rock band from Los Angeles, CA. Songwriter Liam Sternberg (“21 Jumpstreet Theme”) is inspired to write the song after watching people trying walk while off balance on a ferry boat. Their movements remind him of movements of ancient Egyptians sculpted and painted on the walls of burial tombs. “Walk Like An Egyptian” is originally written for singer and choreographer Toni Basil who passes on recording it. While working on The Bangles’ second album in 1985, producer David Kahne finds the song through Sternberg’s publisher, presenting it to the band who record it for their second album “Different Light”. However, it creates tension in the band when drummer Debbi Peterson is regulated to a secondary role on the track, singing only background vocals and having her drum parts played by a drum machine. In spite of this the track is completed and included on the album. Released as the third single from “Different Light” in September of 1986, it becomes The Bangles biggest hit to date. The song is accompanied by a music video featuring the band performing live, inter cut with footage of various people on the street doing the signature “walk like an egyptian” dance and hand gestures. Entering the Hot 100 at #82 on September 27, 1986, it climbs to the top of the chart twelve weeks later. Following the 9/11 Attacks in September 2001, corporate broadcasting behemoth Clear Channel Media places “Walk” on its list of songs deemed “inappropriate” for broadcast radio play, due to the fact that some of the terrorist perpetrators were Egyptian nationals. The restriction on radio play for the song has since been lifted, and the record is a popular recurrent today. “Walk Like An Egyptian” is certified Gold in the US by the RIAA.

Me, I prefer 'Manic Monday' but hey this is fun!